Photos of the day 11/04

( Updated: 11/04/2013 )

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A masked dancer performs a traditional dance in a parade to celebrate New Year of the ethnic Newaris in Katmandu, Nepal. Members of the Newar community celebrated their New Year's Day by praying for longevity and performing rituals to purify and empower the soul for the coming year. Niranjan Shrestha/AP

Students from St Andrews University are covered in foam as they take part in the traditional 'Raisin Weekend' in the historic St Salvator's Quad, in St Andrews, Scotland. The weekend, which begins on Sunday, involves rituals for new students, culminating in a foam fight on Monday morning. Russell Cheyne/Reuters

A Nihang or a Sikh warrior rides a motorcycle during a religious procession called 'Mohalla' in the northern Indian city of Amritsar. The procession is carried out a day after the Diwali festival annually in which the Nihangs from various groups display their martial art and horse riding skills. Munish Sharma/Reuters

A man walks with a skateboard under his arm while looking at his cell phone in Madrid, Spain. Paul White/AP

A member of South Korean environment group wears a mask during a rally denouncing China and South Korea's policy for air pollution in Seoul, South Korea. Environment groups demand that Chinese and South Korean governments take reform measure against air pollution for people's life and health. Lee Jin-man/AP

Ethnic Qiang people perform during a traditional celebration of their New Year's Day in Lixian county, Sichuan province, China. People dance with music, blow flutes, and sing traditional songs during the ceremony. China Daily/Reuters

The sunrises behind the scaffolding clad Washington Monument in Washington, DC. The National Park Service has announced the decorative lighting will be turned off as work crews begin the task of removing the scaffolding from around the earthquaked damage monument. The work is scheduled to be completed and the monument reopened in the spring of 2014. J. David Ake/AP

Palestinians sit around a fire as they make tea inside their house during a power cut in the northern Gaza Strip. Gaza's lone power plant shut its generators due to a fuel shortage, a move that will likely increase already long blackout hours in the impoverished coastal territory run by the Islamist Hamas group. Mohammed Salem/Reuters

President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski (2nd l.), his wife Anna Komorowski (l.), Israel's President Shimon Peres (2nd r.), and chairman of Yad Vashem, Avner Shalev, stand next to the Eternal flame during a ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem. Tsafrir Abayov/AP

A worker paints a street lamp in the Zappeio Gardens in central Athens. Representatives of Greece's bailout creditors are due in Athens for a new round of talks with the government this week on its austerity program. The cuts are meant to reduce debt, but have hurt the economy and pushed the jobless rate to nearly 28 percent. Petros Giannakouris/AP

A protester wears a chain with many amulets as he joins others in a march towards central Bangkok. Thousands of people took to the streets of the Thai capital as their mass protest continues after lawmakers approved a draft political amnesty bill that could allow the return of self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, one of Thailand's most polarizing figures. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A man wearing a mask rides on his motorbike through a road covered with volcanic ash from Mount Sinabung's eruption in Mardingding, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The volcano erupted Sunday, unleashing volcanic ash high into the sky and forcing the evacuation of villagers living around its slope. Binsar Bakkara/AP

A Terre des Hommes researcher points to one of the sessions in a public chat room where users tried to contact purported 10-year-old Sweetie from the Philippines (l.)in a computer-generated image, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Terre des Hommes, a Dutch-based organization that battles to stop child exploitation around the world, said that to gauge the scale of the problem it created a fake 10-year-old girl called Sweetie. Peter Dejong/AP

Visitors on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange use their smartphones and tablet devices to photograph the opening bell ceremonies. Twitter's confidence appears to be increasing ahead of its initial public offering set for later this week at the NYSE, as the 7-year-old short messaging service on Monday boosted the price range for the IPO. Richard Drew/AP

Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic serves during his men's singles tennis match against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London. Toby Melville/Reuters

Framed by the Egyptian flag, a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shouts slogans outside the police academy, where Morsi's trial took place, on the outskirts of Cairo. Morsi was defiant on the first day of his trial, chanting 'Down with military rule,' and calling himself the country's only 'legitimate' president, a Reuters witness said. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz stands with his hand in his pocket as he speaks to media after a charity event for One Fund Boston, the Boston Marathon charity for bombing victims, in Boston. Elise Amendola/AP

Myanmar children carry water from a communal well in a shanty quarter in Chaungtha, Irrawaddy, Myanmar, Nov. 3rd. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

A man from the social activist group 'Council of Canadians' sets up a giant Trojan horse statue in front of the Ontario Investment and Trade Center to protest the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union in Toronto. Mark Blinch/Reuters

A ray of light shines on a Vatican Swiss Guard during a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis for cardinals and bishops who died in the last year, inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Andrew Medichini/AP